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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: EA_enthusiast on December 21, 2023, 11:55:53 pm

Title: Default appearance
Post by: EA_enthusiast on December 21, 2023, 11:55:53 pm

Hello EA experts,

I changed the default appearance of an element (as shown below)

https://ibb.co/3Cd9f3H (https://ibb.co/3Cd9f3H)

But I am not sure why it's not reflected in other diagrams (as shown below)

https://ibb.co/rcYWQ9m (https://ibb.co/rcYWQ9m)

Thank you!

Title: Re: Default appearance
Post by: BobM on December 22, 2023, 12:22:00 am

Something tells me you are using a legend element on the second diagram which changes the appearance of the elements.

Title: Re: Default appearance
Post by: EA_enthusiast on December 22, 2023, 01:57:04 am

Thank you, Bob for your response. I am not the one who created the second diagram.
I didn’t see a legend element on the diagram. But, I’ll check the diagram as soon as I’m in front of my machine and report back.

Title: Re: Default appearance
Post by: EA_enthusiast on December 22, 2023, 04:15:40 am

I have just checked the second diagram, and I do not see any diagram legend. I am not sure what prevents the new default appearance from being displayed.

Title: Re: Default appearance
Post by: qwerty on December 22, 2023, 06:06:41 am

your linked pict are empty / gone. So I just guess: you can set appearance for either just a diagram or for the entire model. EA does not make it easy to distinguish them.

q.

Title: Re: Default appearance
Post by: EA_enthusiast on December 22, 2023, 07:14:48 am

Thank you, qwerty, for chiming in.

The 2 diagrams in the original post are still there if you would like to check them out.
When I hover over the "default appearance", a tooltip appears indicating that the default appearance will be changed in all diagrams. Please see the below screenshot.

https://ibb.co/tsyjd1J (https://ibb.co/tsyjd1J)

Title: Re: Default appearance
Post by: qwerty on December 22, 2023, 11:58:10 pm

Chances that the other diagram has a local overwrite for the global appearance...

q.

Title: Re: Default appearance
Post by: EA_enthusiast on December 23, 2023, 09:05:42 am

Thank you, qwerty. Do you know how can I check/remove that?

Title: Re: Default appearance
Post by: EA_enthusiast on December 23, 2023, 07:20:03 pm

In case someone came across the same issue. You have to click on Layout > Appearance > Reset Local Appearance

https://ibb.co/Csp5snL (https://ibb.co/Csp5snL)

Title: Re: Default appearance
Post by: qwerty on December 24, 2023, 07:55:36 am

You can find locally overwritten appearance via scripting or SQL if you need to check that more often.

q.

Title: Re: Default appearance
Post by: EA_enthusiast on December 24, 2023, 08:29:32 am

Thank you, qwerty, for the tip.